Hello wise perlers,

I am very much a newbie to perl. I was designing some cgi stripts when I thought that HTML::Template looked like a good package.

So I used perl with the CPAN package manager. I tried to install the newest version of HTML::Template, but it seemed to be dependant on a new version of perl than was on my server. So the manager downloaded the new version of perl5 and preceded to ask me questions. After a while I realised that I didn't want to install a new version of perl. So I quit the question asking process.

It then said that the make process had failed. I assume the questions were just generating a make file.

My question is: would this have changed anything on my system? and how can I find out?

Thanks for your time, Dave

P.S. how do I install HTML::Template without getting an updated perl version? Do I just need to find a version of HTML::Template that works on my version of perl?

In reply to Installation gone crazy by Anonymous Monk

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